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Seattle Now

Tuesday Evening Headlines

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

Daily News, News

4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Election officials urge voters to use drop boxes, faith leaders speak out against SNAP delays, and we do a final election check-in before results start rolling in.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Tonvin, host of Seattle Eats, a food podcast from the Seattle Times and K-O-W.

0:06.9

Seattle Fine Dining Spots are mixing their prefixed menus and going casual.

0:12.3

But change is a good thing for restaurants and customers.

0:16.5

On the latest episode, I'll tell you about the high-end menus that are worth hitting.

0:20.8

Listen to Seattle Eats on the K-W app or wherever you get your podcast.

0:30.6

From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle Now.

0:36.0

I'm Patricia Murphy with a roundup of today's top stories.

0:39.1

It's Tuesday, November 4th. Happy Election Day. B ballots are due tonight. Here's Casey Martin.

0:47.1

I'm at a King County Elections Dropbox. You know the ones. Big blue and white with a little slot for ballots.

0:54.3

There should be one near you. There are 85 of them scattered throughout the county.

0:58.4

You can still put your ballot in the mail, but elections officials say people should find one of these boxes to get their ballots in on time.

1:07.4

Haley Walkins from King County Elections says, if you must mail your ballot, we are encouraging folks to actually physically walk their ballot into a post office if they're choosing to mail it to make sure that they get that all important on time postmark of election day or before.

1:22.6

She says so far there's been no issues with ballots coming in this election.

1:26.9

But we do see that turnout trailing just a few points behind where we would expect to be at this point in the election.

1:32.9

So hoping to have a very busy election day in front of us.

1:36.3

Ballots must be in a drop box or postmarked by 8 p.m. tonight.

1:41.1

Casey Martin, KUOW News.

1:42.9

By the way, check out KUOW's live election coverage beginning at 8 tonight. Casey Martin, KUOW News. By the way, check out KUOW's live election coverage beginning at

1:47.4

8 tonight at 94.9 FM and on the KUOW app. Seattle faith leaders are speaking out against the Trump

1:55.1

administration's decision to partially fund SNAP following two federal court rulings. The 930,000 people who rely on SNAP in Washington State

2:04.3

didn't receive their benefits November 1st, and it's not clear when partial benefits will arrive.

2:10.2

Bishop Frank Schuster is with the Archdiocese of Seattle and Catholic Community Services of Western Washington.

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